A long holiday weekend typically means more hours spent on apps like Scruff and Grindr in hopes of finding someone to help pass the time.
Related: These Awkward #GrindrFails All But Guarantee A Night Alone
Of course, once you’ve located a potential candidate, you want to make sure you say the right thing so as not to scare them off. One bad joke or off-color comment can totally kill the deal.
Scroll down for great examples of what not to say when cruising on Scruff this weekend…
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AtticusBennett
hey Queerty, remember when you shared THIS lovely scruff fail i blogged about?
😉
http://www.queerty.com/adventures-in-scruff-the-hot-straight-harvey-milk-tattoo-20120615
1898
Wow, these are mild compared to some of the messages I’ve received on Scruff and other similar apps!
A few days ago a guy asked me if he could hypnotize me via skype.
A few months ago a guy asked me if he could be my toilet, and specifically requested that I eat a lot of corn first.
DarkZephyr
I kinda feel sorry for the “Hiv I there” dude, since that was probably just an autocorrect or autofill fail.
GC1985
This is why I wouldn’t ever use any of these stupid apps.
onthemark
Lol – the 33 year old “daddy” must be a 2 pack a day smoker, that’ll do it!
heavylifter
@AtticusBennett:
“hey Queerty, remember when you shared THIS lovely scruff fail i blogged about?
😉
http://www.queerty.com/adventures-in-scruff-the-hot-straight-harvey-milk-tattoo-20120615”
That tattoo of yours looks really gay, a clenched fist, makes you look like you are into the fisting scene, LOL.
heavylifter
@onthemark:
Any guy over 30 is an old hag in gay years. Considering the lifestyle queens live – Party n Play etc – most are looking pretty much used up by 30.
David Aventura
@heavylifter: You are so right, which is why it blows my mind every time I hear a gay man say: “Everyone says I look 10 years younger.”
GC1985
@heavylifter: you still never answers my question… what do you heavylift asides from twelve packs of beer?
Usually people like you who complain about the looks of others, aren’t much to look at.
@David Aventura: Funny because most people who seen my picture say I look 22-23, and not 30.
I never was into much partying, though I did go clubbing with friends every now and then. I was more focused on finishing my undergrad and graduate degrees. I also take care of myself and stay active, despite working 50 hours a week now. So yea, heavylifter and David are often guys who were never lookers.
AtticusBennett
@GC1985: truth – heavylifter is no doubt one of Society’s Unfortunates – a dude so ugly that nobody will ever sleep with him. oh well. at least he can troll! 😀
GC1985
@AtticusBennett: I’m still trying to figure out what he “heavylifts”. LOL. He has so much venomous hatred towards Obama and Hillary. He’s a huge Trump supporter too.
I don’t care for gay republicans… they are typically a massive waste of time and offer nothing to the community. They are in a political party that hates them and won’t even let their Log Cabin group go to the convention lol.
I also don’t care for ANYONE who supports the GOP… a party that wants to destroy jobs, skyrocket unemployment and destroy whatever safety net exists in this country.
AtticusBennett
@GC1985: the mark of the internet troll is that they hate in others what they hate in themselves. the closeted right-wing gay male commenter hates seeing proudly openly gay “liberal stereotypical gay men”, like myself, who have family and friends that champion the LGBT community. they toe the line to suck up to their bigoted families, and still aren’t truly embraced. venting on the internet, anonymously, is their only distraction from the nothingness of their actual lives.
MMDD
True story: Early 90’s, met a guy who was 21 or so who was dating a good friend of mine at the time. He asked how old I was. I told him I was 27. His response: “Wow, I never would have known. You don’t have any wrinkles.”
Have laughed about that for years. Wonder what he looks like now.
galatians328
‘Tail’? …
What a good way to objectify, diminish, and dehumanize queer folks.
Didn’t Queerty take the ‘gender and sexuality studies’ course at the community college?
We’ve formally reported Queerty numerous times to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission but the Commission says it doesn’t have time to monitor media organizations. So, we guess Queerty is sleeping with the Commission?
batesnight
Okay so it’s not just me. I thought am I the only one on Scruff/Grindr that is on the receiving end of one mind numbing message after another. Nice to know there are others on there who feel the same way. At least these were funny.
Bauhaus
@galatians328:
Get off the cross, Queerty needs the wood.
GC1985
@galatians328: You forgot to wave your bible around like crazy. I’ve seen your posts before. How can you be part of a religion that hates your guts?
And “we’ve” formally reported Queerty numerous times? Who is we? Stop acting as if you’re more than one person.
By the way, there is something called freedom of speech and since Queerty is in the US and a media organization they have a right to publish what they want.
bobbibubbi
I’m so sick and tired of the self righteous slut-shaming tone this article adopts. I dare everyone reading this, including the smug commentators above, to claim that they’ve truly never stooped to this kind of desperation/awkwardness at least ONCE in their lives. We’re so quick to pat ourselves on the back that we don’t act like this or that we don’t go on these apps. But face the truth: we/you all are horny fucks; we’ve all tried these apps; we’ve all BEEN these people that everyone is so hypocritically laughing at.
GC1985
@bobbibubbi: Nope. I have never stooped to that level, nor have I ever used any of the apps. I appreciate you not speak for me. As far as others, I will let them respond to your inane drivel.
onthemark
@bobbibubbi: Since I was a “smug commentator” about ONE comment above, I’ll say sure there’s nothing wrong with Scruff in general. Some of the guys on display here seem awfully juvenile though. And one strikes me as totally harmless – what’s wrong with having sex while c@mping? Seems like elitism or mere prissiness on the part of the Scruff recipient.
GC1985
What’s smug about my comment? I’m not saying anything is wrong with the apps, I just said I never used them.
onthemark
@GC1985: “This is why I wouldn’t ever use any of these stupid apps.”
Uh, that sounds kind of “smug,” dude. So maybe “bobbibubbi” thought so too. And as so often happens, suddenly you’re changing your story and denying you wrote something that WE CAN SEE RIGHT THERE. Not even a goOgle search needed; it’s RIGHT THERE. 🙂
GC1985
I never changed anything. You seem to have major personality faults. You can’t seem to drop anything. At least you’re consistently full of shit. I’m not changing anything.
He basically said I would have to use the app because I’m gay and uncontrollably horny. Nonsense really.
Moron.
GC1985
@onthemark: You know what’s smug? Your stupid know-it-all comments showing up everywhere.
onthemark
@GC1985: Oh, so NOW you’re changing your story to: you wouldn’t use these stupid apps, not because they are stupid, but because you are NOT “uncontrollably horny” like the rest of us gay horny degenerate lowlifes? Yeah, that’s not smug at all!
Probably more like, you wouldn’t use these apps because your hotheaded monogamous bf would cut your b—s off? Lol.
As I’ve noted before, GC, you’re fun to mess with, and you take the bait every time.
onthemark
@GC1985: “He basically said I would have to use the app because I’m gay and uncontrollably horny.”
Okay, he was sort of implying that anyone who TOOK THE TIME to read an article like this one is probably like that. If you’re an exception, that still leaves the question of why you clicked on this at all.
For someone who’s as happily monogamous as you claim to be, you sure go out of your way to comment on each and every sex app article! Of course, then you make sure to declare to us that such articles have nothing to do with you. But if they have nothing to do with you, why comment so much on them? Why even read them and get so upset about them?
GC1985
Bingo. He’s back at it.
Egotistical, self centered dude knows everything because he’s just like SeeingEyeDog. Maybe that was it the whole time. SeeingEyeDog = Offthemark.
He’s a nut. A lunatic. He’ll go after anything I say because he has this uncontrollable urge to do so (may I suggest getting back on the meds?).
GC1985
And I take the bait? Oh really? You just took the bait and got clusterf**ked. Two ways where you said absolutely nothing. BTW, just because I’m not into fisting doesn’t mean I’m bland. Maybe you need to understand that concept.
GC1985
@GC1985: *Two Posts.
You’re one fucked up dude in every way, SeeingEyeDog. No wonder why you can’t maintain a relationship.
onthemark
@GC1985: Oh I’ve maintained a relationship for years, GC – I just don’t feel the SMUG need to brag about it incessantly like you do, especially on comment threads that are about casual sex, or at most casual dating and have nothing to do with relationships.
Our mutual enemy, joeyty, has said several times he was the ex-“SeeingEyeDog.” I see no reason to doubt that: same crazy political opinions, same writing style. He claims he was banned for some mysterious reason (he actually thinks it had to do with Streisand!… oh well, you know those conspiracy theorists).
GC1985
Remember to take your CVS card when you get your meds… you are running a bit low right now. I’m not bragging about anything. You need your meds because you’re seeing something that isn’t there. And you have this delusion we agree on stuff lmao. Dream on, SeeingEyeDog. You’re Joeyty.
woodin
I had 2 dates with a guy, and afterwards texted if I would be open to having my vasectomy reversed….just so could have all my DNA. I kid you not.
onthemark
@woodin: I don’t understand – did he think it tasted different or what? 🙂
@GC1985: As I’ve noted before, you’re just too lazy to keep track of anyone here so you call everyone by the same names and call anyone you get into a minor tiff with a “Trump fan” etc when there’s evidence of such things. And you always forget that google exists.
Oh, come off it. You were banned just like joeyty (probably not for Streisand comments though). Everybody figured that out. Nobody believes your bullsh*t story that you “lost” your cellphone and therefore somehow “lost” your Queerty password (what does B have to do with A?) … after several months of your pompously assuring us that you “NEVER” posted from your phone, anyway! Yeah right.
onthemark
@onthemark: NO evidence of such things… like, ever.
onthemark
@GC1985: I’m sure you vote, but apparently your political “activism” consists of typing a lot on Queerty and making Hillary look bad.
You’re starting to look like a Trump “plant.” How much is Trump paying you?
GC1985
*yawn* Three posts now… that say absolutely nothing.
Load up on those meds. I never was banned. I didn’t lose my cellphone. I just don’t have the password or email for that username. You really don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. You’re speaking out of your ass.
Typing a lot? Seems like you’re typing more than me (once again, LIBERTARIAN TRUMP SUPPORTER – by your own admission).
Time to get back on the meds. Some fluoxetine would help.
GC1985
This guy is truly a moron. Enjoy your day, TRUMP ass kisser.
onthemark
@GC1985: It’s raining here so I’m typing a lot. What the fuck is YOUR excuse? How nice is the weather in L.A.? Maybe you want to start yet another day-long argument about exactly what the temperature is there (ha ha, that was fun).
Look what happened here. All I did was agree with someone ELSE that you made a smug statement. And it is undeniably SMUG. So “logically,” you accuse me out of the blue of being the most horrible r@cist here, joeyty! (With whom I’ve argued ad infinitum.)
Hillary really should pay you to STFU – you’re losing her a few hundred votes in the primary every time you post here.
GC1985
@onthemark: I’m staying in today. LOL. I don’t want skin cancer. I went to the beach too much the last two days and I got burned! (No, Bernie wasn’t there) Oh and please don’t say “Oh no you didn’t”. WHat the fuck do you know? You know absolutely nothing in that walnut sized brain of yours.
Time for you to restart your new medication dosage for the day.
You’re a true lying P.O.S. who is on here more than me and responds instantly.
Get back on those meds. You might have multiple personality disorder.
And who say anything about Hillary? You loser… you were voting for Trump anyways.
GC1985
@onthemark: BTW, you had the temperature totally wrong that time like an idiot. You made up some number… well what else is new? You make up a lot of stupid shit and pass it off as truth. You have several major problems and you need your meds.
onthemark
@GC1985: Google says I remembered it slightly wrong: “BTW, I am indeed back. Lost the password on my old account and the email associated with it.” – GC1985, Mar. 5, 2016
https://www.queerty.com/a-coven-of-queer-witches-have-placed-a-hex-on-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-20160304
Although that’s a bit more mysterious. “Lost” a password? Lost (forgot?) an entire email address? No backup way(s) to get in at all? (Even written on paper?) And you’re 30 years old, not 90? Sounds kind of fishy.
“I went to the beach too much the last two days and I got burned! (No, Bernie wasn’t there)” – Hey, that’s funny, at least.
Just calm down, you SMUG little thing. 🙂
GC1985
You calm down, you pretentious little medicated thing. Time to triple the dosage. I never lost any cell phone, except for a flip phone I had back in 2006 lol.
I decided not to even bother trying to recover the thing. I have several email addresses, and that account was associated with one I used exclusively for junk mail. I don’t remember what service it was at.
What a stupid rambling moron. He makes up shit as he goes along. Just like Bernie and Trump.
GC1985
You have a seriously screwed up little mind. All those meds I think.
onthemark
As I pointed out, Google indicates you did not lose a phone. But how did you “lose” a password… and a whole email account… abuela?
You know, it’s really weird that you take so much offense at being called SMUG as opposed to being called a BITCH. Normal people would consider “smug” not offensive at all. But you have proudly called YOURSELF a BITCH!
Obviously – You were banned. For being a BITCH. A forgetful BITCH.
Happy upcoming birthday, btw… abuela!
onthemark
A smug bitch? Maybe you’re happier being referred to as a smug bitch? 🙂
GC1985
@onthemark: I have many different passwords. Big deal. Stop trying to equate the two. Time to triple those meds. They might help reduce your condition.
I was never banned you dumb ignorant fool. And you seem like you are in your 90s. A miserable old man whose best years were gone decades ago.
The only bitch here is you. A useless stupid bitch who has served no use to society and is incapable of having even basic friendships. Somebody like you is insufferable and constantly trying to paint yourself as some sort of victim because you have self imposed hardships.
You are a useless pathetic bitch who has never had any sort of impact on anyone. Your entire existence is irrelevant.
GC1985
An old decrepit man calling me abuela. How ironic. Considering I am young enough to be his grandson, quite ironic. I am surprised this clown even knows how to use the internet. He probably still has a type writer and a rotary phone. He has to take his insecurities out on me because he is jealous. He is someone who misses his youth (which was back around the Eisenhower administration). You must have pity for this demented poor man.
I am building my own life and experiencing success. I do not need validation from a life failure, like offthewall. With his condition, I doubt he was ever able to even hold down a job.
o.codone
There are 47 comments here and 20 of them are from ^ this clown, GC1985. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO. MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO ON SCRUFF AND START BLOW JOBBING OLD GUYS OR CHILDREN OR SOMETHING. YOU SERIOUSLY NEED TO GET A LIFE GIANCARLO.
GC1985
@o.codone: And you need to stop being an idiot Republican who abuses oxycontin. It is no surprise you were kicked out of the military. You are one delusional stupid man. And I don’t take advice from a potential pedophile.
onthemark
@o.codone: Ha. If you get raped again, it’ll be your “fault” again and you can have an excuse to take some more drugs!
@GC1985: Just answer the question, abuela. How the FUCK did you “lose” a password and an entire email address?
It’s obvious. Admit it – Queerty banned your previous moniker.
GC1985
I wasn’t banned. Considering you were born in a time when people wore top hats, your attacks of age are hypocritical. Quadruple the meds.
onthemark
@GC1985: In your OWN words: “Lost the password on my old account and the email associated with it.”
How does one “lose” a password? AND an entire email?
Okay, MAYBE it was mostly a junk mail account. Although you certainly used it a LOT up until January 2016 to annoy us all on Queerty nonstop (including New Years Eve, lol).
How, pray tell, did you suddenly “lose” the password to it?
GC1985
@onthemark: How do you know what email I was using? You don’t know anything about email or computers. Go back to Morse code and ham radios. Whether I used the other account is immaterial to that email address, you pretentious idiot. I don’t have the other email account anymore. Period.
Get back on your meds for that condition of yours.
onthemark
@GC1985: We understand. Obviously, you were banned.
GC1985
Keep believing that Trump supporter! I was never banned. Not once on this site.
o.codone
@onthemark: Giancarlo was banned. Thrown off of queerty. Imagine his surprise when he realized it. That uh-oh I said too much moment. ahahaaaha.
GC1985
I was never banned. Not once. Keep trying druggy dude. No wonder why they kicked you out of the military dishonorably. They probably couldn’t get you out of there fast enough. Prescription meds basically screwed up his life and mind.
onthemark
@o.codone: LOL. Yep, it must have been quite a shock to the poor kid. Jan. 2016 – I went to Europe & when I got back, GC had disappeared and nobody knew what happened to him. It all adds up – I barely noticed his “explanation” (Mar. 5) at the time, but if you read it, it makes no sense at all. Add to that his multiple frantic non-explanations for the “lost” password etc… damn, he WAS banned!
So he disappeared for about 2 months and he was really WAS nicer when he got back, more toned down. (Do they still have state mental institutions in CA, or can’t they afford that stuff anymore? Well, he probably has good insurance.) His nonstop references to “meds” obviously mean HE’S on more meds than anyone here (even you Mr. Codone). Ha ha. Although they seem to wearing off a bit. His constant references to Drumpf don’t fool me either. Obviously Drumpf is paying him to be an a-hole here and trick some readers into voting against Hillary. Pretty disgusting from my POV although you may find that amusing, Codone.
He’s quite a piece of work. The shrinks in that nut house must have been fascinated!
o.codone
@onthemark: I remember that he had taken over several threads and there was no room for anyone else. Every topic had been twisted around by him in a way that talked only about HIM and HIS experiences and HIS viewpoints, over and over and over again. And I remember that there were multiple flags (that I had made), and that he was insulting the Queerty editors. Queerty had to shut him up, for everybody’s sanity. Nobody wanted to hear what he had to say. He wouldn’t take my advice to get a life, do other things, call his mother, go pick somebody up, suck some dick, get drunk, walk the dog, go shopping, ANYTHING, just stop humiliating himself in public. But, he has a sickness, he cannot shut up even if he wanted to. SO, QUEERTY SHUT HIM UP. He might as well admit it. Why does he keep saying he was never banned? The evidence is apparent to everyone else. Just say it Giancarlo. Are you waiting for an intervention? You were banned, thrown out, shut up, shunned. Keep it real and just tell the truth, you know everyone else knows it anyway. It could happen to anyone. (I already have my next screen name picked out). I’m surprised it didn’t happen to you sooner girl. You think so highly of the content of what you are saying, but you’re the only one. No biggie, You’re an idiot for insisting it didn’t happen. It happened. Accept it.
GC1985
@onthemark: Considering you are the one with the unfortunate mental condition, I am not the one on meds. Lovely how you are now teaming up with Codone to attack me. You will stoop to whatever low. Why don’t you just give him a blowjob while you are at it?
You are voting for Trump and I am voting for Hillary. So how am I a Trump supporter? You are a dumb thing, joeyty.
@o.codone: I was never banned, druggy. Somebody needs to permanently ban you from this site and give you a good lesson in showing respect to those better than you. You are a lowly cowardly figure who has nothing going on in his life. Your obsession with me is sick and disturbing. Watch where you step. Your flags didn’t do anything and the feature was removed as Queerty never did anything. You are abhorrently raci-st and homophobic. Nobody cares what you think, idiot.
GC1985
@o.codone: And coming from a guy who can’t even get a fucking job because of his addiction and has no money, rather ironic. Of course, are you going to cry about being raped again? Get off the drugs, get sober and clean up your life.
You see someone like Offthemark/Joeyty suffers from an uncontrollable medical condition and he has to prescribed medication… However I do think it is grossly inadequate and a straitjacket would be more appropriate.
onthemark
@o.codone: Hmmm, looks like it’s only a matter of time to Ban #2…
@GC1985: Calling a poster an “idiot” is a violation of the Queerty comment policy:
“Comment threads are not the place to exhibit grade school playground behavior. That means adherence to simple rules, such as not calling each other names, throwing profanity at other readers, or calling them idiots.”
GC1985
@onthemark: You have insulted me multiple times already here. You could be banned too. You will probably weasel your way out of rhatvone. You are pathetic.
But whatever you say bro. Cool story. This is like beating a dead horse. Now go give Codone that blow job he has been asking for.
There was no ban 1. But cool story!
o.codone
@GC1985: Giancarlo said: “You could be banned too”. Just like you were banned Giancarlo. Okay, I take that as an admission. Your denial is weakening, that’s a sign of improving mental health. And yeah, you’re right, the flag feature is gone. I wonder why.